Category: sundance 2023

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February 15, 2023

Sundance 2023: You Hurt My Feelings, by David Bax

There are many things that make every Nicole Holofcener film a welcome, reliable refreshment but maybe the most important is that she’s one of the very few directors currently working who are expressly an unapologetically interested in making comedies. Sure,...

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February 14, 2023

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Jamojaya, the latest melodrama from one of the best currently working melodramatists, Justin Chon (Gook, Blue Bayou), returns to the subject matter of family, which has dominated much of his oeuvre. This time, we’re focused on the growing distance between...

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February 9, 2023

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

In topic-driven or issue-driven documentaries, there are two main paths a filmmaker can make (and then innumerable directions to branch off from there). On the one hand, there’s the bird’s eye view approach, attempting to offer an overview of a...

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February 8, 2023

Sundance 2023: Bad Behaviour, by David Bax

Alice Englert‘s Bad Behaviour is officially, as the title’s spelling suggests, a product of New Zealand. But most of the movie, as evidenced by the presence of Blue Lives Matter stickers and other present-day yank ephemera, takes place in the...

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February 7, 2023

Sundance 2023: Infinity Pool, by David Bax

Old, Sundown, Triangle of Sadness, The White Lotus (from what I’m told; I haven’t watched it)… A subsection of the recent trend of movies about how fucked up rich folks are comes in the form of letting us see people...

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February 6, 2023

Sundance 2023: Cat Person, by David Bax

When it references the saying–often misattributed to Margaret Atwood–that “men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them,” I immediately started to worry that Susanna Fogel‘s Cat Person was going to...

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February 3, 2023

Sundance 2023: Magazine Dreams, by David Bax

Adam Arkapaw is a shockingly undersung cinematographer, given how widely seen and likely influential some of his work is. On the small screen, he was responsible for the looks of the first seasons of both Top of the Lake and...

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February 2, 2023

Sundance 2023: Past Lives, by David Bax

Sometimes I’ll have a memory that comes unstuck in time. I remember something happened but I can’t remember when it was. Usually, to remedy this, I’ll start trying to associate the memory with actual, physical locations. Where was I living...

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February 1, 2023

Sundance 2023: Fair Play, by David Bax

Fair Play, the first feature from Chloe Domont after more than half a decade directing television, is about people who aren’t like anyone I know personally. Oh, I’m aware of the type of people they are–those who are drawn to...

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January 31, 2023

Sundance 2023: Earth Mama, by David Bax

Savanah Leaf’s Earth Mama, as you may have gleaned from the title, is a movie about motherhood and womanhood in general. But it’s not only about those things. In fact, the strongest move the film makes is in its depiction...

Category: sundance 2023

Sundance 2023: You Hurt My Feelings, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Jamojaya, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Bad Behaviour, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Infinity Pool, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Cat Person, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Magazine Dreams, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Past Lives, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Fair Play, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Earth Mama, by David Bax

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